Austinist: Sit Right There, I'll Tell You How I Became the Prince of a Town Called Bel Air

Norman Bowers

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:27:01 -0600

urban

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:49:37 -0600

My friend lives in these lofts and they look nice on the outside but have a lot of problems inside. First, my friend waited for over a year for his loft to be ready. After he moved in, he found multiple problems that took months to fix. They say they are green builders, but his electricity bills are extremely high! There is construction going on all the time and their lofts are really overpriced for the neighborhood.

Jonathon

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:12:26 -0600

Tim, dude. No way. We looked for a house in that neighborhood. At least 120k. You could easily spend 200k for one of the nicer homes.

Tim Thomas

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:55:47 -0600

Around the same price as other houses in the neighborhood? Not even close. That neighborhood is still one of the only ones in town where you can pick up a house for 90k. I would be shocked if you could find another home in that neighborhood even approaching 200k.

Bre

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:00:42 -0600

They've also got rooftop decks with hot tub hookups. Don't ask me how I know this.

truecraig

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:58:26 -0600

Nah, no coining. The combo-phrase has apparently been around for a bit. I must have heard it from somewhere. Probably my parole officer. Kidding. My parole officer's a mute. Okay then. Not cool in the least.

odam

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:29:18 -0600

did you just coin "Ubransexual" tc? that's hot

truecraig

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:26:30 -0600

Yeah.... No. That's far too much to pay for apartment livin', even if they do offer the best of low-end metalic-ish appliances and most urbansexual Home Depot lighting fixtures.

Ian

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:56:19 -0600

Die yuppie scum!

odam

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:31:11 -0600

350K for a 2br "loft" SOUTH of Ben White? Smoke Weed Every Day!